Artspace Sydney

Hear from co-curators of the 2026 New Museum Triennial, Vivian Crockett (Curator, New Museum) and Isabella Rjeille (Curator, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP)), as they discuss recent projects that exemplify their curatorial methodologies. Crockett and Rjeille will highlight their collaborative partnership and the ethics of curating an international survey focused on emerging practices as two Brazilian-born curators navigating contemporary issues and world events.​​​​​​​​
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🎤 Curators Talk: Vivian Crockett and Isabella Rjeille​​​​​​​​
🗓️ Saturday 20 July, 11am–12pm ​​​​​​​​
📍 Level 1, Artspace​​​​​​​​
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Vivian Crockett. Photo: Ciara Elle Bryant; Isabella Rjeille. Photo: Vans Bumbeers

Parramatta Artists Studios: 'to look each other in the eye' is now open in the Ideas Platform at Artspace. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Don't miss the artist talks tomorrow with Owen Leong , Ali Tahayori and Jodie Whalen .whalen, facilitated by Parramatta Artists Studios Curator JD Reforma and Artspace Associate Curator Sarah Rose

🗓️ Saturday 6 July, 12–1pm
📍Ideas Platform, Artspace
🔗 Free entry, book now

Exhibition dates: 5 July – 4 Aug 2024
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'Parramatta Artists Studios: too look each other in the eye', 2024, Ideas Platform, Artspace. Photo: Anna Kučera

The 2024 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) is now open!​​​​​​​​​Plan your visit from Tuesday to Sunday 10am–5pm. ​​​​​​​​​
The six 2024 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) finalists are: Kalanjay Dhir, Remy Faint, Charlotte Haywood, Gillian Kayrooz, Kien Situ and Talia Smith

Join the artist talks this Saturday
Saturday 6 July, 11am–12pm
Main Galleries, Artspace
Free entry, book now

VAFE Exhibition dates: 5 July – 8 Sep 2024
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2024 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), 2024. Installation view, Artspace, Sydney. Photo: Anna Kučera

Congratulations to artist Gillian Kayrooz the recipient of the 2024 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) made possible in partnership with the NSW Government through Create NSW.

The 2024 NSW VAFE panel said:
‘The panel were impressed with how Gillian’s considered practice is so rooted in her Western Sydney community and her personal experience. The activities proposed for her Fellowship program demonstrates the responsibility, respect and care that she brings to her artistic practice. The proposed Fellowship will be a significant step for her career and professional development.’

A huge congratulations to finalists Kalanjay Dhir, Remy Faint, Charlotte Haywood, Kien Situ and Talia Smith for their dedication and ambitious presentations this year.

The 2024 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) is proudly supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW, in partnership with Artspace.
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2024 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) Recipient Gillian Kayrooz. Photo: Anna Kučera

Congratulations to artist Gillian Kayrooz the recipient of the 2024 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) made possible in partnership with the NSW Government through Create NSW. ​​​​​​​​
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The 2024 NSW VAFE panel said: ​​​​​​​​
'The panel were impressed with how Gillian’s considered practice is so rooted in her Western Sydney community and her personal experience. The activities proposed for her Fellowship program demonstrates the responsibility, respect and care that she brings to her artistic practice. The proposed Fellowship will be a significant step for her career and professional development.' ​​​​​​​​
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A huge congratulations to finalists Kalanjay Dhir, Remy Faint, Charlotte Haywood, Kien Situ and Talia Smith for their dedication and ambitious presentations this year. ​​​​​​​​
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The 2024 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) is proudly supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW, in partnership with Artspace. ​​​​​​​​
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2024 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) Recipient Gillian Kayrooz. Photo: Anna Kučera

The 2024 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) will open tonight from 6pm at Artspace 💫​​​​​​​​
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On Saturday 6 July, please join us for the artist talks and walkthrough of the 2024 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) exhibition with artists Kalanjay Dhir, Remy Faint, Charlotte Haywood, Gillian Kayrooz, Kien Situ and Talia Smith in conversation with curators Sarah Rose and Yuanyu Li. ​​​​​​​​
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🎤 Artist Talks​​​​​​​​
🗓️ Saturday 6 July, 11am–12pm​​​​​​​​
📍 Main Galleries, Artspace​​​​​​​​
🔗 Free entry, book now ​​​​​​​​
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VAFE Exhibition dates: 5 July – 8 Sep 2024​​​​​​​​
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Charlotte Haywood, 'Mythkit: resonance + manifestations', 2024 and 'Orchid Sonic Weaving', 2022. Installation view, 2024 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), Artspace, Sydney, 2024. Photo: Anna Kučera

Meet the 2024 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) Finalists 💫

⚡️Kalanjay Dhir is an artist and musician based in Sydney on unceded Dharug land. His work uses sculpture and video and draws on popular culture, sci-fi and history. Kalanjay likes to invent near-future worlds that imagine hopeful ways humans could relate to their environment.
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⚡️Remy Faint is an emerging artist based on Gadigal Land, Sydney. While often referencing collection-based objects and materials specific to his Chinese heritage, Faint’s works mediate cross-cultural and material frameworks to explore themes surrounding exchange, visibility and hybridised artistic production
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⚡️Gillian Kayrooz and her art practice was nurtured on unceded Dharug land, in Guildford, Western Sydney. Her artistic approach is firmly anchored in the communities of Western Sydney, reflecting her personal experiences, ongoing engagement and steadfast commitment to storytelling through collaborative and disruptive art-making methods.
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⚡️Charlotte Haywood is an experimental interdisciplinary artist based in Northern NSW on Bundjalung Country. She trades between the tactile and the digital, form and phenomena, working across textiles, sculpture, installation, public art, film, theatre, live art, music, food, linguistics, communities and ecologies.
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⚡️Kien Situ is a multidisciplinary Asian-Australian artist. His practice spans architecture, sculpture, film, sound and installation and is centred on prime motifs of formation (matter) and change (time).
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⚡️Talia Smith is an artist and curator from Aotearoa based in Sydney, Australia. She is of Cook Island, Samoan and Pakeha heritage. Her photographic and moving image practice explores notions of time, memory, familial histories and the way in which we connect with culture when removed from ancestral homelands

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We are excited to announce the opening of ‘to look each other in the eye’ which is the seventh annual Parramatta Artists Studios (PAS) presentation at Artspace. Featuring Owen Leong , Ali Tahayori and Jodie Whalen .whalen, this edition explores the relationships between desire, intimacy, personal histories, and altered states of being.
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Join us for the opening on Thursday 4 July, alongside the 2024 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging).
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Owen Leong, Ali Tahayori, Jodie Whalen. Photos: Anna Kucera

We are pleased to share Berlin-based Australian artist and visiting artist at Artspace Studio 11, Emily Hunt's 'The Grotto' which will open at the Art Gallery of NSW this Saturday, 22 June. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Emily Hunt draws inspiration from the extraordinary history of the occult and spiritualism in Australia. In this exhibition, Hunt will present six handmade marionettes, which incorporate sculpture, ceramics, costume, woodwork, silk painting and printing on fabric.

Additionally, join artist Emily Hunt for a talk and marionette performance in the exhibition Emily Hunt: The Grotto at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Three performances will take place on 23, 26 and 29 June.

Learn more via our website
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Emily Hunt in Studio 11 during her studio residency at Artspace for upcoming The Grotto at Art Gallery of NSW, 2024. Photo: Anna Kučera

Join us for the opening of the 2024 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) on Thursday 4 July from 6–8pm. The Fellowship award, valued at $30,000 is offered by Create NSW and will be presented at Artspace.

Welcome to Country by Uncle Charles Madden followed by the announcement of the 2024 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) recipient at 6.30pm.

The 2024 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) finalists are:
Kalanjay Dhir , Remy Faint .faint, Charlotte Haywood , Gillian Kayrooz , Kien Situ and Talia Smith

🔗 RSVP via link in bio
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2024 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) Finalists: Remy Faint, Kien Situ, Kalanjay Dhir, Charlotte Haywood, Gillian Kayrooz and Talia Smith. Photo: Anna Kuçera

Artspace will be open on Monday 10 June, the final day to see the 24th Biennale of Sydney ‘Ten Thousand Suns’.

The exhibition includes works by artists Doreen Chapman, Adebunmi Gbadebo, Li Jiun-Yang, r e a, Eric-Paul Riege, Sana Shahmuradova Tanska and Trevor Yeung.

📆 Exhibition dates: 9 March–10 June
📍Artspace, Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm, Free entry
🔗 Plan your visit via the link in bio
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Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, (left to right) ‘Untitled’, 2023, ‘Homesickness (Stork)’, 2022, ‘Fell Asleep at the river shore in 2022’, 2022, oil on canvas. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with assistance from the Consulate General of Canada, Sydney. Courtesy the artist and Gunia Nowik Gallery; Trevor Yeung, ‘Night Mushroom Colon (Artspace)’, 2024; Eric-Paul Riege, ‘yoo’ (unstrung), 2024; r e a. ‘GARI (language)’, 116 Posters, 2024. Installation views, 24th Biennale of Sydney, Artspace. Photos: Document Photography

Join the 2022 Countess Report .report co-editors Miranda Samuels and Shevaun Wright who will present and unpack their methodology, data collection process and analysis from the new report. The Countess Report is seeking feedback and discussion with the general public, artists and arts workers, curators, gallery and museum directors, board members and art collectors.

🎤 The 2022 Countess Report
📆 Saturday 11 May, 1.30–2.30pm
📍Multipurpose Space, Level 1, Artspace
🔗 Register via link in bio. Free entry
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Countess.Report 2024, The Token; Countesses are Calculating. Digital Image

r e a's 'GARI (language)' are on The Banners and in the Ideas Platform at Artspace as part of the 24th Biennale of Sydney. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​In the wake of the 2023 Voice referendum, q***r Gamilaraay/Wailwan/Biripi artist r e a has taken Finkelstein’s poster as inspiration to parallel the underlying politics that align both q***r and blak bodies. On the exterior of The Gunnery building, r e a’s large banners depict the words for sun in the Gamilaraay, Wailwan and Biripi languages of the artist’s parents and grandparents. The work continues inside Artspace in the Ideas Platform, here interjected by SILENCE = DEATH and LAND = RIGHTS layering dual messages for audiences to decipher. r e a has positioned blak, q***r power as unavoidable and immutable as the rise and fall of the sun, the light at the end of tunnel.

The text on the Banners and walls translates as ‘sun’ in three languages:�
YARAAY: Gamilaraay�
DHUNI : Wailwan�
TOONAU: Biripi

The text around the sun on the floor translates in Gamilaraay: �
bunbul: meeting place�
guurrama-li: resist, stand strong�
burranba-li: cause a change
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r e a, 'GARI (language)', 2024, Exterior of Artspace in The Gunnery, featuring new commission by r e a, 'GARI (language)', 2024; 'GARI (language)' inside Ideas Platform. Commissioned by Biennale of Sydney and Artspace, in collaboration with r e a to create a safe space for reflection. Courtesy the artist. Photos: Document Photography

The Banner Series and Ideas Platform is supported by Andrew Cameron AM and Cathy Cameron

Join Quandamooka writer and director Wesley Enoch in conversation with Gamilaraay/Wailwan/Biripi artist r e a about their practice and the underpinnings of their work GARI (language) for the 24th Biennale of Sydney. The conversation will focus on the reclamation of language, the underlying politics that align both q***r and Blak bodies, and acts of protest. r e a is a participating artist in the 24th Biennale of Sydney.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​🎤 Wesley Enoch in Conversation with r e a: On Reclaiming Language as Protest
📆 Saturday 11 May, 12–1pm
📍Multipurpose Space, Level 1, Artspace
🔗 Free Entry, register via link in bio
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r e a, 2023. Photo: Courtesy the artist. Wesley Enoch. Photo: Cassandra Hannagan

Join us to welcome Margot Norton , Chief Curator of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) . In her talk, Norton will discuss her approach to curating through examples of select recent exhibitions and the 2021 New Museum Triennial. She will also speak about plans for future programming at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, where she is Chief Curator.

🎤 International Curators Program: Margot Norton
📆 Saturday 4 May, 2pm
📍 Multipurpose Space, Level 1, Artspace
🔗 Free entry, bookings essential
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Margot Norton. Photo: Elliott Jerome Brown Jr

Artspace is looking for a new Associate Curator – Programs to join the team. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​This is an exciting and multifaceted role that will provide a high level of support for Artspace’s one-year studio residency program, learning and outreach programs, public and partnership programming.

📆 Applications should be submitted by 5pm on Monday 20 May
🔗 Find out how to apply via link in bio

Curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor 'Encounters' is dedicated to large-scale projects and new work which speaks for the region’s strength and connectivity. Read the full feature on STIR

'Encounters' at Art Basel Hong Kong centres the artist's voice, enables cultural exchange Curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor, 'Encounters' is dedicated to large-scale projects and new work which speaks for the region’s strength and connectivity.

Plan your visit ahead to see the 24th Biennale of Sydney at Artspace. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​We will be closed this Friday 29 March and Monday 1 April and open all other days with our regular hours from 11am–5pm Tuesday – Sunday.
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Image: Li Jiun-Yang, 'Kau-pue Temple Fair: The Immortals', 2016–17, Ten Thousand Suns, 24th Biennale of Sydney. Installation view, Artspace, Sydney, 2024. Presentation at the 24th Biennale of Sydney was made possible with generous support from the Taiwan Ministry of Culture and Cultural Division, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Sydney. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Document Photography.

We are pleased to announce the Artspace and The Keir Foundation International Curators Program (ICP). This new partnership will support up to four international curators annually, over the next three years and will make a significant contribution to contemporary practice in Australia.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The program will commence with two curatorial talks by curator John Tain and curator Maria Lind this Saturday 16 March at Artspace.

📆 Curator Talk: John Tain, Saturday 16 March, 1-1.30pm
📆 Curator Talk: Maria Lind, Saturday 16 March, 2-3pm
🔗 Book now via link in bio
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John Tain. Photo: Courtesy the curator; Portrait of curator Maria Lind by artist Bernd Krauss. Courtesy the curator

Join us this Thursday to celebrate the opening of the 24th Biennale of Sydney Artists' Party. As part of the 24th Biennale of Sydney Artists’ Party at Artspace, Diné artist Eric-Paul Riege will perform a durational ‘weaving dance’ in and around his fibre installations. Conceiving his work as animate and mobile, Riege uses weaving as both material and metaphor to interlace Diné spirituality with his own interpretations and cosmology.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​🎟️ Free entry, registrations essential
🔗 More info via link in bio
📆 Artist Party: Thursday 7 March, 6–10pm
📆 Eric-Paul Riege Performance: Thursday 7 March, 6.30pm
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Eric-Paul Riege. Installation View, The Armory Show, New York, 2023. Woven fibres, dimensions variable. Photo: Adam Reich. Courtesy the artist, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, and STARS, Los Angeles

Join us this Thursday to celebrate the opening of the 24th Biennale of Sydney Artists' Party. As part of the 24th Biennale of Sydney Artists’ Party at Artspace, Diné artist Eric-Paul Riege will perform a durational ‘weaving dance’ in and around his fibre installations. Conceiving his work as animate and mobile, Riege uses weaving as both material and metaphor to interlace Diné spirituality with his own interpretations and cosmology.​​​​​​​​
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🎟️ Free entry, registrations essential ​​​​​​​​
🔗 More info via link in bio ​​​​​​​​
📆 Artist Party: Thursday 7 March, 6–10pm​​​​​​​​
📆 Eric-Paul Riege Performance: Thursday 7 March, 6.30pm​​​​​​​​
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Eric-Paul Riege. Installation View, The Armory Show, New York, 2023. Woven fibres, dimensions variable. Photo: Adam Reich. Courtesy the artist, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, and STARS, Los Angeles

Only one week to go until Artspace reopens!​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Join us for our opening celebrations on Friday 15 December starting with a Welcome to Country with Uncle Chicka Madden and Official Opening and Ribbon Cutting at the main entrance on Forbes Street Plaza, 5.30pm

For more information on our opening weekend program, link in bio
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Exterior of Artspace in The Gunnery, featuring new commission by Dennis Golding, Colouring Memory, 2023. Photo: Katherine Lu

Artspace is pleased to announce Wiradyuri and Kamilaroi artist Jonathan Jones will present the inaugural exhibition at Artspace at The Gunnery when it reopens from Friday 15 December 2023 – 11 February 2024, before the exhibition tours nationally. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Jones’s exhibition 'untitled (transcriptions of country)' explores colonial transport, trade and the acclimatisation of Indigenous plants, animals and objects along with the colonisation of local knowledge, by examining the 1800–1803 French expedition under the command of Captain Nicolas Baudin.

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Image: Jonathan Jones, untitled (emu eggs) after Étienne-Pierre Ventenat, 2021–23 (detail). Courtesy the artist. Photo: Jenni Carter

As part of the trainings and network events as part of the Tools for Demodernizing initiative hosted by Kunstinstituut Melly, the network presents its online chapbook which compiles learnings of the June trainings. Alongside the launch of the online chapbook are two dynamic events, one held in Paris and co-presented with the art center Palais de Tokyo, and the second one in Rotterdam, co-presented with the education program Blacker Blackness. View more info on the public programs here
https://www.kunstinstituutmelly.nl/en/engage/7277-tools-for-demodernizing-chapbook-launch-and-conversation-with-naomi-beckwith

Read more on the launch here
https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/553107/tools-for-demodernizing-chapbook/

Tools for Demodernizing chapbook - Announcements - e-flux Kunstinstituut Melly and the Tools for Demodernizing network are proud to present its online chapbook, with two dynamic events hosted in Paris at the Palais de Tokyo and in Rotterdam together with Blacker Blackness.

Save the Date: Artspace reopens 15 December ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Artspace is thrilled to announce our official reopening of The Gunnery on 15 December 2023. Opening Celebrations and Artspace's 40th Birthday will take place on Friday 15 December 2023 + Saturday 16 December 2023

Artspace will also relaunch with a new co-commission by Wiradyuri and Kamilaroi artist Jonathan Jones titled 'Jonathan Jones: untitled (transcriptions of country)'. Premiered at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris in November 2021, 'Jonathan Jones: untitled (transcriptions of country)' will follow with an expanded presentation at Artspace from 15 December 2023 to 11 February 2024.

Stay tuned as we share more details in the coming weeks about our opening weekend and Vernissage program.
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Images: DunnHillam Architects, Architect’s render of The Gunnery featuring artwork by Chun Yin Rainbow Chan, ‘Fruit Song 生果文’, 2022, detail. Courtesy the artist; Jonathan Jones, untitled (emu eggs) after Étienne-Pierre Ventenat, 2021–23, and untitled (vases, armes, pêche), 2023, emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) eggshell, powder-coated steel, golden everlasting paperdaisy (Xerochrysum bracteatum) flowers, antique tables; earthenware, 206 pieces dimensions variable. Ceramic work by Somchai Charoen. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Jenni Carter

'Just Not Australian' will open at Watt Space Gallery as part of New Annual on Saturday 23 September from 4–6pm.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Presented by 19 Australian artists at the forefront of national debate and practice, 'Just Not Australian' deals broadly with contemporary Australian nationhood.

Saturday, 22 September – 28 October 2023
Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle

For more information on the exhibition and program at New Annual, visit the link in bio
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Gordon Hookey, (left) Outside the Square, Inside the Circle, 2003, courtesy the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane; (right) First Stolen Then Stolen Land, 1998, University of Wollongong Art Collection, donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Tess Allas; in 'Just Not Australian', curated by Artspace. Exhibition view at the Museum of Sydney, 2023. Photo © Anna Kucera for Museums of History NSW

Join us for the opening of the 2023 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) on Wednesday 26 July from 5.30–8pm. The Fellowship award is offered by Create NSW and will be presented with Carriageworks this year.

Welcome to Country by Graham Simms followed by the recipient announcement by Hon. John Graham MLC will take place at 6.30pm.

The 2023 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) finalists are:
Maddison Gibbs, Morgan Hogg, Nadia Odlum, EJ Son, Natalie Quan Yau Tso and Min Wong

More info via link in bio
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2023 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) Finalists, left to right: Nadia Odlum, EJ Son, Maddison Gibbs, Min Wong, Morgan Hogg, Natalie Quan Yau Tso. Photo: Anna Kučera

Artspace's 52 ACTIONS is opening this week at Jervis Bay Maritime Museum, the latest venue on a national exhibition tour presenting works from 52 Australian artists and collectives across generations, geographies and cultural backgrounds.

Join the opening event this Thursday 29 June, 4pm

22 June – 2 October 2023
Jervis Bay Maritime Museum

More info here
https://www.jervisbaymaritimemuseum.asn.au/what-s-on.html

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Image: Brook Andrew, 'This year, with Blak girl magic...', 2020. Courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney. Photo: Luis Power